Because of No Child Left Behind requirements, principals were more willing to help us in reaching the families who had younger children in the home and whose school-age child was having difficulty in school. They would not give out name/address/phone information to us in the public library, but they made the arrangements and did the publicity themselves and we held the workshops in the Media Center. Families were grateful to have this information for their younger children.

I worked with the Public School's Bilingual Education Department and after several referral found a bilingual Spanish-English speaker who was also interested in early childhood. We did the workshops together on quite a few occasions for Spanish-speaking parents--playing off one another, not really translating EVERYTHING in both languages. She told me that when she saw one of the mother's a couple of weeks later, the mother said that she now talks with her seven-month-old child much more and in Spanish since she knows little English. She now sings songs with her and talks with her about everything. Before she did not speak with her much because she wanted her daughter to know English, so she was only talking with her in English. Since she knew very little English, the baby was getting very little language before the workshop. We would never have reached these families without the partnership! --Sghoting 13:37, 13 December 2006 (CST)